Exclusive breastfeeding: Relation to gestational age, birth weight, and early neonatal ward admission. A nationwide cohort study of children born after 35 weeks of gestation.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Prematurity, being small for gestational age and early neonatal ward admission are the major neonatal conditions that may interfere with breastfeeding supportive practices in infants born at gestational age ≥35+0 weeks. We aimed to investigate the associations between gestational age, small for gestational age, early neonatal ward admission and exclusive breastfeeding at one and four months.

Methods

A register-based cohort-study of all Danish singletons with gestational age ≥35+0 weeks born in 2014-2015. In Denmark, health visitors routinely conduct free home visits throughout infants' first year and thereby report breastfeeding data to The Danish National Child Health Register. These data were linked with data from other national registers. Logistic regression mo

SUBMITTER: Nejsum FM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10208505 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature